Re: BUG #17946: LC_MONETARY & DO LANGUAGE plperl - BUG

On Mon Jun 5, 2023 at 11:00 AM CDT, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> On 25/05/2023 15:33, Tom Lane wrote:
> > PG Bug reporting form <noreply@postgresql.org> writes:
> >> After upgrading an application using Postgresql from version 10 to 12,
> >> fields of type "money" are no longer generated with the € symbol but with
> >> $.
> >
> > Hmm, seems to work for me:
>
> I can reproduce this:
>
> psql (16beta1)
> Type "help" for help.
>
> postgres=# DO LANGUAGE 'plperl' $$ elog(NOTICE, 'foo') $$;
> NOTICE:  foo
> DO
> postgres=# SET lc_monetary TO 'en_GB.UTF-8';
> SET
> postgres=# SELECT 12.34::money AS price;
>   price
> --------
>   $12.34
> (1 row)
>
>
> If I don't call the plperl function, it works as expected:
>
> sql (16beta1)
> Type "help" for help.
>
> postgres=# SET lc_monetary TO 'en_GB.UTF-8';
> SET
> postgres=# SELECT 12.34::money AS price;
>   price
> --------
>   £12.34
> (1 row)
>
> I should note that 'en_GB.UTF-8' is the default locale in my system, and
> that's what I used in initdb. I don't know if it makes a difference.

I am looking into this bug. I have also reproduced it.

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Tristan Partin
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